Disclaimer: I don't own Eva, Gainax and ADV do, I don't own any other animes I just decide to throw in for a laugh. One such anime would be RahXephon which is owned by Bones and ADV, the characters are used but there is no major influence of the series, don't worry hardcore eva fans, there won't be any Dolems and Angels attacking at once or anything. If there are any characters that appear that don't seem to be from Eva or RahXephon then I have thrown them in and they are mine, you can't have them! (Without asking anyway) Waya and Lilith would be such characters. Now then, on with the show.
Title : Evangelion The New Testament
Chapter Title : No rest for the wicked
Shinji opened his eyes and was about to say 'An unfamiliar ceiling' when he realised that he wasn't under a ceiling, he was under some cloth only a couple of foot above his head. He looked beside him and saw Asuka lying there, he then looked and saw Waya and Lilith on the other side. He slowly got up, checking his wound he found that although it was healing quickly there was still a large scar on his left shoulder. He slowly climbed out of the opening in the cloth, careful not to knock over a random pole, he then looked outside and saw nothing but grass and mist. He sighed and turned to find that he had been sleeping in a tent, in fact there were about four tents scattered around in total. Noticed a fire a few feet away and he walked over to find Kensuke shifting his attention from breakfast (a pan of bacon) and Touji's shattered arm. Shinji yawned and moaned at the same time as he flexed the muscles in his shoulder while stretching.
"Morning sunshine."
"Yeah, you slept like a baby, especially the part were we carried you all the way here."
"Who did the carrying?"
"Well...you did but you just used your AT field! I was damaged."
"I like the term damaged, not hurt."
"Well if I was hurt the fact that the surface of my arm being shattered all the way up to the shoulder would be bothering me more."
"Yeah that reminds me, well done Kensuke, that was some impressive swordsmanship back there, I was quite impressed."
"Well you guys did most of the work, I just helped."
"No way, you did almost all the work, you built the weapons and got me out of there. But, maybe being as amazing as you are, you could explain why we are in the mountains above Tokyo 3?"
"Oh that...heh heh...well you see Misato was well on the way to being fired anyway, with her last counts of insubordination of supplying us with weapons, she was fired and they want to arrest her."
"Oh and Haruka took that helicopter out in Misato's name."
"Yeah and my and Rei's modifications caused it to...sort of blow up, no one was hurt but it was a complete write off. Then there was the fact that you were going to be deported for causing all the trouble with the Lilim, then you apparently single-handedly blew up a school."
"Oh and Kensuke and I are wanted for stealing technology, all of Kensuke's In-country assets have been confiscated, we are all homeless, jobless and money less. Not to mention we are being hunted like dogs by more humans than Lilim now."
"That makes me feel so much better...So who is up here then?"
"Well, Rei is staying with Kensuke in that tent over there."
Shinji raised a single eyebrow and stared at his recently ascended friend.
"In which they are in separate sleeping bags facing in opposite directions..."
"I'm in with Hikari, Misato is staying in that one with Makoto."
"So she is being open with the relationship then?"
"Pretty much, I think she has bigger things on her mind."
Shinji looked out at the tents then down towards Tokyo-3, it was all well and good leaving of your own accord but to be thrown out was a much different feeling. He then thought about the fact that Makoto was there, then he was also on the run.
"So if Makoto is here where are the others?"
"Maya and Shigeru have moved to Tokyo-2, they are looking into a rumour about someone manipulating the government. So they went there and are working undercover. Haruka, Megumi and the others are still at NERV, the government determined that they had nothing to do with us but they are still under surveillance. At the moment we have lost contact with them, but when we left they promised to talk to us about any equipment we may need."
"Good, are they the only ones who know about us?"
"Yeah pretty much, I doubt there is anyone else who knows we are here..."
"Shh!"
Shinji looked around, it was almost like he had that feeling in his stomach, except it was moving his stomach in various directions. He looked over at the tent, Waya had stuck his head out of the opening and was looking from left to right for something, their gazes met and they shared a nod. He looked at Kensuke and Touji, they too had begun searching around for something, it was at that moment they heard rustling. Shinji gripped the hilt of the sword that Kensuke had just finished repairing, he looked to the direction of the moving grass and jumped forward.
"Show your sel..."
"EEEK!"
Shinji jumped and as soon as he passed the nearest layer of grass, he hit what he could only guess was a woman and with a roll he landed on top of the figure. They both lay there for a moment, stunned, while Kensuke and Touji looked down at him, Kensuke held out a sword, deactivated of course, and pointed it at the girl's head as she lay there. Shinji stood and took up a similar position while Touji just stared down with his patented, 'Don't take it personally kid' look. But on further examination, the perpetrator was only a girl, younger than them but a little older than Megumi, she had long black hair and a pair of brown eyes, on the other side of her glasses that is. She was sitting on the ground, she had been rubbing her rear, from where she had fallen, when she felt the glares of the males on her face. She was now staring at them like bambi in headlights, she wasn't breathing, this was evident by the colour her face was turning. She was so frightened that the boys seemed a little off put, Waya appeared from behind his father, holding his own sword ready to strike down the intruder. But upon seeing the girl, he lowered his weapon, the others did the same and the girl started to breathe again, although at the same time she began crying. They stood there for a few moments before Shinji finally decided to speak up.
"Who are you and what do you want?"
The girl looked up at him, through her misted glasses and tear filled eyes she looked upon the one that had been named 'Slayer of Lilim'. She began crying again.
"Don't hurt me! I'm not here to hurt you! I just want to talk!"
The boys looked between one another, it ended with them looking at the silently appointed leader, Shinji sighed and extended his hand.
"Okay, you can talk, first you can tell us why you were sneaking around in the grass."
The girl wiped the tears from her eyes then stood up, she brushed the grass off her clothes and bowed in front of the boys.
"My name is Judith Bestwick, but my friends call me Jude. I saw you on television, when I saw the grey hair and red eyes of the Lilim, I realised that I was one, I also saw that you were the same."
"Well, carry on."
"I thought that you might come after me so I thought I would try and find you, you know, to let you get to know me so you know I'm not evil."
"Lilim...are like humans, they all have some evil inside them, they just tend to be more destructive when they tap into it."
The boys turned around, Asuka was standing wrapped in a blanket, her expression was harsh and it took a moment for the others to realise that her exboyfriend just sacrificed himself for her. Her gaze on Jude gave Shinji a painful memory of Third Impact, her eyes were clouded and she showed little more than hate and disgust.
"Asuka...are you..."
"I'm fine, all things considering, although I want to know why a Lilim was sneaking around outside, if you didn't see her...would she have tried to..."
"NO!"
Everyone stared at Jude, she was kneeling down, breathing heavily and her eyes gave the impression that they were ready to start filling with water again. She bowed her head like she was bowing to royalty.
"I came here to make friends with you, to help you defeat what remaining Lilim are still out there!"
"How can we trust you?"
"I..."
"How do we know you won't turn on us and kidnap the children?"
"You..."
"How do we know you won't kill us in our sleep!?"
"I...I would never do something like that..."
"Asuka, leave the girl alone, can't you see she is scared stiff?"
"I can see that, she should be scared, our lives aren't exactly filled with cherubs and fairies, if she stays here she becomes another target."
"I understand that, but I would rather be a target the bad guys than a target to the good guys."
"What does that mean?"
The girl's head lowered again as if she said something she shouldn't off, Asuka stepped forward and Shinji could see she was about to do something the girl would regret. He grabbed her and pulled her to one side, Shinji turned to Touji.
"I need to talk to Asuka, can you talk to Jude...or what ever her name is...find out what she knows."
"Right..."
Shinji led Asuka to a small clearing, he sat the girl down, then he sat next to her, almost immediately she leant over and placed her head on his shoulder.
"Asuka..."
"He died..."
"I know."
"He died...because of me..."
"I know."
"You don't understand! He loved me and he killed himself even though he had pledged to kill us all!"
"Look, he got past his pride, he got past what made him evil and realised that Love is what matters. That is why both he...and Lust...should have been on our side, they got past the sins, the emotions that bound them and accepted love, but we already know they were manipulated."
"As much as you say it, it still feels like I killed him, with my own hands."
"But it wasn't your hands."
"He put himself between me and Lust, between me and death, I might as well have shot him myself."
"Stop killing yourself over it."
"But it was my fault! I did it! He loved me and I killed him! How could you know!?"
Shinji let a single tear moved down his cheek, Asuka opened her eyes from her tear filled tirade to see that through all of the hitting she did to his shoulder, Shinji just sat still. As another tear fell down his face, Asuka turned to face the same direction as Shinji.
"Did I hurt your arm?"
"No..."
"Then what is it?"
"I know exactly how you feel."
"How could you?"
"Kawouru...said he loved me...then I crushed him..."
"Oh my god..."
Asuka put her hand over her mouth, she had been in hospital through the entire Seventeenth Angel incident, Rei and Misato had never told her the full story.
"They never told me that you killed him, they just said that the Seventeenth Angel was your friend, I thought Rei had..."
"No it was me...and now I feel even worse knowing that even after I killed him, he gave me a part of himself that helped me survive. But that was the past..."
Shinji stood up, he wiped the tears from his eyes, he then wiped Asuka's, they stood up and hugged. They then walked back over to the fire, Jude was sitting next to Kensuke talking, she had a blanket wrapped around her and Touji immediately got up. While Shinji met Touji half way, then walked towards another small clearing, Asuka walked up to Jude, and stood in front of her.
"Yes..."
"I'm sorry...I have had a bad couple of days...I shouldn't have snapped at you like that..."
"It's okay, I understand...my name is Judith Elizabeth Bestwick, nice to meet you."
"Asuka Langley Soryu, charmed I'm sure."
The two girls laughed for a moment, leaving Kensuke with a sort of bewilderment that was brought on by Asuka being nice and apologising, while at the same time staring at the new girl's beautiful features. Meanwhile Touji stood opposite Shinji, they looked around and then sat.
"So what did she say?"
"She was approached by a tall woman, who said she was a Lilim, she offered her something, in return for attacking us. She refused blankly and ran all the way to the station, she has been running ever since."
"So this woman, what did she say about her?"
"Just that she was tall and made her offer very tempting."
"A temptress."
"Pretty much...you have that look in your eye."
"What look?"
"The look, you know the one where you are giving serious thought to something."
"Yeah, I was thinking of numbers..."
"Numbers?"
"Yep, gather everyone around the fire..."
Author note – I feel so ashamed, after 3 chapters a day, it has taken me...let's see...25 days to put up the next chapter, for those who have read this almost religiously, I apologise. I'll try and finish it soon but I am busy for the next week or so, but I will try. I've only got 5 chapters left.
